NEW YORK (AP) — Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the ...

From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

Mark Twain gave us inimitable characters such as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was no less creative in styling himself as ...

Conan O'Brien is the latest recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. See highlights from the ceremony, from Trump jokes to moving tributes from John Mulaney, Kumail ...

Captain America inspired an entire generation of fans with a quote about standing up for what’s right, but there’s a dark ...

Biographer Ron Chernow on how the author of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ made himself one of the world’s most recognizable brands.

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And, because not all that glitters (or glisters) is gold, we are including some that missed the mark. Some of Shakespeare's best-known and most-performed plays also account for a lot of his most ...